Inside job suspected in Uganda ivory deal scam

>In the very distant past, owning  and riding a motorcycle was a big deal, mostly the preserve of teachers, clergymen and senior civil servants.  Tanzania is now awash with motorcycles, largely as a tool for the bodaboda taxi business that  engages thousands of young men (women being a negligible fraction), who would otherwise worsen the unemployment  problem aptly likened to a time bomb.

Salon
Nairobi to charge suspected Chinese ivory smuggler
Africa Science News Service
A suspected Chinese ivory smuggler is expected to be arraigned in a Makadara Law Courts, Nairobi, Kenya this morning. Tang Yong Jian, 40, was arrested at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) while on transit from Napula, Mozambique to ...
40-year-old Chinese man arrested at JKIA with ivory disguised as cupsThe Standard Digital News
Conservationists to Hong Kong: “Ivory is not art”Salon
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The Guardian
Interpol: Kenyan Suspected Ivory Smuggler Arrested
ABC News
Kenyan police have arrested an alleged ivory trafficker, who had been on the run for months, the international police agency said Tuesday. Feisal Ali was arrested at a rental house in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on Monday evening, said the head of Interpol in ...
Interpol: man wanted for ivory smuggling caught in TanzaniaChron.com

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>As the nation awaits what will transpire this week in Parliament with the tabling of the probe report on the escrow account, The Citizen brings you a chronology of key events since Independent Power Tanzania Limited (IPTL) signed a memorandum of understanding with Tanzania Electric Supply Company (Tanesco)  20 years ago:

Mombasa. A court in Kenya on Wednesday granted bail to the suspected ringleader of an ivory smuggling gang on medical grounds, prompting immediate protests from wildlife activists.

US authorities have arrested an American in Uganda for leading a large international counterfeiting ring, the BBC has learned.

Ivory Coast name all 59 applicants to become national manager and ex-Sheffield Wednesday boss Dave Jones is on the list.

Ugandan police said Sunday that 19 suspected Islamist Shabaab insurgents arrested in weekend raids had planned to carry out bomb attacks, as the US embassy said the immediate threat had been “countered”.

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